The Universe is Over the Hill.

[Bled Welder]

I mean above its number.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't the sun a dark crystal?  I think it is.
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>wrote:
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>> Conceptually at least, not new news: in a precursor theory to the big
>> bang <http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/ideas/expanding.htm>, Georges
>> Lemaitre called the universe we see "ashes and smoke of bright but very
>> rapid fireworks."****
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>> From  a thermodynamic POV, too, most of the action has happened: things
>> cooled off so fast in the first seconds that even the hottest stars today
>> are cryogenic by comparison. Now, we *think* interactions and processes
>> were very simple at that ultra-high temperature, i.e. that complexities
>> like geology and chemistry and biology can only happen once things have
>> cooled way down.****
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>> But if some kind of complexity **did** come about a fraction of a second
>> after inception, operating with quark chromodynamics and the strong nuclear
>> force (many orders of magnitude stronger than the electromagnetism that
>> governs nearly all of our experience)… it could have evolved (sensu lato)
>> very far very fast.****
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>> Gelidly yours,  ****
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>> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *David Morris
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:25 AM
>> *To:* P-list
>> *Subject:* The Universe is Over the Hill.****
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>> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/11/19/the-stars-are-beginning-to-go-out/
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>> The universe is apparently well past its prime in terms of making stars,
>> and what new ones are being made now across the cosmos will never amount to
>> more than a few percent on top of the numbers already come and gone.****
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>> The main conclusions come in two parts. First, 95% of all the stars we
>> see around us today were formed during the past 11 billion years, and about
>> *half *of these were formed between roughly 11 and 8 billion years ago
>> in a flurry of activity. But the real shocker is that the rate at which new
>> stars are being produced in galaxies today is barely 3% of the rate back 11
>> billion years ago, and declining. This indicates that unless our universe
>> finds a second wind (which is unlikely) it will only ever manage to produce
>> about 5% more stars than exist at this very moment.****
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>> This is, quite literally, the beginning of the end.****
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